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{font:Times New Roman}It depends on the direction the movie chose to take. Had we not seen what the Marshal thinks he saw it might have been a “did he really do it” tale especially with Vaughn’s powerhouse performance in the courtroom scene. This would have put the emphasis on Eddie and been a bit familiar. Instead the Marshal was the predominate character and the story dealt with his determination to see the truth come out no matter the opposition. I tried playing out the story from this angle without us seeing that pivotal scene but decided it worked better as written. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}Vaughn does almost steal the movie. This was made in 1958 between *Teenage Caveman* and his Oscar-robbed role in *The Young Philadelphians.* Even knowing what we think we do he made us want to see him spared. It wasn’t would he be a star but when. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}I’ve not seen or heard of *At Gunpoint* but I’ll watch for it; thank you for the tip.{font}
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fredbaetz wrote:
His view on acting.." It's just a job. Show up on time, know your lines, hit your mark and go home"
And he did it all so well.
One thing that infuriates me is that he made his leading ladies look so good that they got Oscar nominations while he got zip. Take *Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison.* His competition for Sister Angela is God and few other actors could be up to that challenge. As a Catholic I understand her conflict between what she sees as her calling in life vs. her attraction to Mr. Allison who is as devoted to the Marine Corps as she is to her order but loves her deeply. He is also honorable as he shows in the way he modestly treats her when she's ill even though he obviously wants her. Even though she probably does what's right for her-and any other choice would have brought on all kinds of wrath from clergy and my fellow laymen-he is so lovable that a little bit of me keeps hoping she'll tear off that headpiece and go after him. You feel sorry that a man like this must lose. This story could only have worked with someone of Mitchum's talent and magnetism and he's ignored. Leo DiCaprio got similarly treated in *Titanic* so Hollywood hasn't learned much.
This is my second favorite Mitchum film after *Out of the Past. Cape Fear* is third as we see his darker side.
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> Jake: If I ever make it through the Pearly Gates, one of the first things I will ask God is "Are You certain that You gave the right species dominion over the Earth?" The way we seem bent on ruining the place makes me wonder. Great shot!
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{font:Times New Roman}Has anybody talked about *Good Day for a Hanging,* another little gem from the Columbia mine that kept turning them out in the 50s? I just saw it and heartily recommend it to one and all.{font}
{font:Times New Roman}Fred MacMurray, who claimed not to like doing Westerns, really knew how to pick them. He plays an 1878 former lawman with a 20 year old daughter and a widowed fiancée with a young son. A young man who once lived there arrives with an outlaw gang who rob the bank. When the posse follows them the town Marshal is killed but the young man captured. The town wants the lawman to take over the marshal’s job and he does but tells them he will have to testify that he witnessed the young man kill his predecessor even though he denies it. The daughter was a childhood friend of the accused and refuses to believe he did it. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}There are a lot of parallels with the justice system today. The actors are in fine form, especially Robert Vaughn as the accused who makes you wonder if maybe the Marshal is wrong about him. Even the fiancée has her doubts and the wedding is threatened. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}Anything else I add would be a spoiler. See it for yourself and you won’t be sorry. {font}
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{font:Times New Roman}I’ve alluded to this before but does anybody have articles or information on the 1950’s promotion of using comic books to interest the public into going to the movies? {font}
{font:Times New Roman}This started around 1953 and went on through the rest of the decade. Most of the films and occasional TV series episode were from Warner brothers or released by them. They included many genres and most films were high profile. Since most readers were children or teen-agers I’m guessing the idea was to have them pester the parents to see them rightfully figuring they had more clout than their marketing departments. They certainly seemed like a big deal to me and I was on the junior end of their target range. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}The ones I can recall were for:{font}
{font:Times New Roman}*King Richard & the Crusaders*
*Drum Beat*
*Helen of Troy*
*The F. B. I. Story*
*Dragoon Wells Massacre*
*Cheyenne* episode #15, The Last Train West{font}
{font:Times New Roman}There’s also one I can’t recall the title of. A young boy and a girl named Maybelle have a “puppy love” romance before she disappears after an Indian attack on her wagon train. The boy never forgets her and is bitter towards all tribes. Ten years later she comes back into his life very much alive. That’s all I can remember about it.{font}
{font:Times New Roman}These were all straight comic books. I’m wondering if they tried this with any 3-D films as they did have some books you could make 3-D with some plastic and paper red/green lens glasses. {font}
{font:Times New Roman}What’s strange about this is that’s it the time when congressional hearings about the role of comics in juvenile delinquency were going on and calls for bans on comics were very vocal. The Comics Code Authority came out of this. It’s surprising that a studio would chance become involved in using such a controversial medium to promote its films. I’m just wondering what anybody else knows about this. {font}
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> Thanks to all of you for the vast amount of information on Tyrone Power. There are so many that are favorites of mine. And I'm glad someone noted the music from "Captain from Castile." This score by Alfred Newman is considered one of the all-time greats among film scores. As much as I love Mr. Newman's music, I put this one at the top of the list. Thanks again to all you Ty Power fans.
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Youtube has enabled me to compile a wonderful library of themes-mostly soundtracks-from my favorite movies and TV shows. *Captain From Castile* is one of them and ther's also a very rousing version from the USC Marching Band. Oddly, the trailer for it is in b&w although it states the movie is in Technicolor; I've never seen this before except for *Niagara* which is also Fox.
I know I've mentioned before that in the 50s a new TV station used this theme for their local nightly news which is where I first heard it. It makes these folks seem so full of themselves as even the national broadcasters didn't come off as this pompous. I get to enjoy the music where it belongs doing what it was meant to do.
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Womens' breasts have one practical function-to nurse their young-although I will accept that they also have a sexual allure for most men. Until fairly recently when children and marriage went together a larger size hinted at success at both endeavors but in truth nursing is possible for nearly any woman whatever her measurements.
Today the second end seems to be the predominate one and the source of unnecessary worry for many women. Guys seem to have a similar concern further south. It's all nonsense! It's what you have inside with regards to caring about the other person and what you want to offer and accept from them not the outer shell that counts. Age and gravity will change it anyway. Why can't we just accept each other as they are while encouraging them to develop their full potential?
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Thank you for all the photos of the silent era stars as we never see much of them and they were the start of it all. The Norma Shearer one seemed to be part sexy and part horror; she had a great figure but the hair looked like Elsa Lanchester as the *Bride of Frankenstein.* She's still my favorite actress of that era though.
The thread is rightfully pointing out that even in Hollywood one mold did and should not have fit all. The very uniqueness of the ladies here-and that's what this thread is about-gave every nearly girl a chance to see someone like herself on screen and get the inspiration to develop her own beauty to its fullest even if she never got past family photos. Femme fatales or girl-next-door, there was someone for everybody. Keep it up!
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}WHAT is going on?
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> http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/05/17/disco-queen-donna-summer-dead-at-63-report-says/
It's sad that's she's gone but no drugs, alcohol, suicide or other scandal; just quietly from something many of us have faced-or will-and with a loving family at her side. The demon side of fame didn't win this one. RIP to a real lady whose music goes on.
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?:| I'm getting a headache from reading all those ratio formulas and not being "scientific" enough to understand it all. Your post with the two *Giant* scenes explained much of it and as anyone in your profession knows "one picture = 1k words".
If a movie is widescreen I want to see it all so letterbox does not bother me. I've tried zoom on them at times but usually go back to wide and enjoy it. That mini-documentary with all those directors showing how pan & scan changes a movie-usually for the worse-has convinced me it's the best way to go for widescreen movies. *The Lawrence of Arabia* sequences and Curtis Hanson's use of *The* *Last Supper* for an example speak for themselves. I don't need to fill my screen up.
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Thank you, Kyle, for this great bit of information. All three of my favorite Power films, *The Long* *Gray Line,* *Captain From* *Castile*, and *Witness For the Prosecution* are scheduled. That day is marked on my calendar. -
:0 Is this really Doris Dowling? She always seemed phony to me with that hair that looked like it was colored with black shoe polish. I know she was usually the villianess but it was if she was "trying too hard" to convince us. In your photo the color is much lighter and she has a softer and more believable but still malevolent look. This woman makes me want to stick around and see what she's up to.
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I know I'm not supposed to but that exchange between Selsnick and Tiomkin cracked me up, especially when Tiomkin responded to Selsnick's insane comments. Sometimes only "four letter words" will do; it's just that they're now used so often they don't matter anymore. I'd always read that Jack Warner and Harry Cohn were the real jerks-putting it mildly-but Selsnick seems right up there with them.
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Does anybody know that Judah Benjamin was the Confederate Attorney General then Secretaries of War and State? He was from Louisiana and of impeccable reputation.
This is a beautiful structure of classical design. It has the look of many Southern buildings of the time and the Jewish people of Natchez should rightfully take pride in it. Jake is right, all faiths have contributed to our heritage; just think of the Mormon Tabernacle or that Chinese temple in California profiled on History.
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Thank you for letting us know Zohra Lampert is still with us. A reviewer described her as "an unusual and interesting actress". I'll say! And a face any Miss America would envy. Robert Middleton looks like he's playing something other than his usual villain in that photo. Oh, that's right, there's *Friendly Persuasion.* A good actor in any role.
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*CineMaven wrote: MAY WYNN* - She's seen a lot and it's troubling to her. I thought she was very good as Stanwyck's daughter...she looked like she could stand up to Stanwyck (ha...no one else really could) and kind of looks like Stanwyck too. She gives a nice rousing speech out there in the dusty valley against violence. She wore nice outfits and her horse was gorgeous. She also wanted a man who could stand up to her father so she has her pretty little eyes set on Glenn Ford in that lovely little way movies show love: "I hate you!"
May Wynn played Caroline, the woman who did John a favor and dumped him when he didn't meet her self-centered qualidications for a husband. The lady you are talking about is Dianne Foster. She did a blot of work in the 50's usually as a brunette. I suppose they made her a blonde here as there were two other dark-haired women in the story but it was a bad dye job. I agree with you about Judith and wonder just who in the end wanted John to be foreman of Anchor more, her father or her. From his reaction, she obviously had something to work with. She was also in The *Kentuckian, Night Passage,* and *The Deep Six.*
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Thank you, Jake. Back in 86 I had a three hour layover in New Orleans and decided on a quick tour of the French Quarter despite a bus employee telling me I was "too nice to go there alone". I did anyway and was taken by all the old brick buildings with the iron filigree balconies. At just the right moment I turned to see what was on my side of the street and there was "Old Hickory" and St. Louis Cathedral. I was able to go inside and see it was as beautiful as the outside. I made it back to the station safely delighted I had chosen to go.
The same thing happened to me in NYC in 92 when I wanted to go from an area near the Trade Center to Times Square. Three old drunks kept trying to keep me from catching a bus there because 'That was no place for a Lady". I got there and found it much nicer in appearance than what I was used to seeing in the movies. In Hollywood one bus driver told me to get the bus to Bob Hope at the coffee shop accross from the Roosevelt rather than Hollywood High as if was more lit and safer which I did. I guess Guardian angels come in all types.
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Just when I thought Denver Pyle was born with gray hair you prove me wrong, I think he was more handsome with it and I've been watching him in movies and on TV since the 50s. Thank you anyway.
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Today was also the birthday of my favorite composer, Dimitri Tiomkin. While I would have liked to have heard some of his music as well I did enjoy hearing some of Steiner's lesser known scores. I can remember a time when I thought he was the only scorer because all we ever saw was WB movies on TV. I have decided I like Tiomkin, Rozsa and Korngold better but as I said on another post when Max was good he was hard to beat. I appreciated the bio info too.
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ginnyfan wrote: L.Q. Jones played "Smitty" the first season of "Cheyenne." After a few episodes, Smitty disappeared and Clint Walker rode alone from then on. The show would have been very different if he had stayed on as sidekick.
I know he was in the first four episodes a comic relief country boy. Roy Huggins then took over as producer and has admitted he was the one who wrote "Smitty" out as he thought sidekicks were old hat. It would have been a different show for certain. Jones then spent six seasons on *The Virginian* as ranch hand "Belden". Chuck Norris had him and many other TV Western stars guesting on *Walker, Texas Ranger* from time to time.To get a later look at him, one can watch CASINO, which seems to be somewhere on cable almost every night.
I have and still like what I see.
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FredC: I saw the movie and was once again impressed by how much they did with a small budget but truth on their side. I remember when much of this happened and my mother following the story. The interesting thing is that the clean up was still ongoing when the movie was made. Has it reversed back to a crime base or stayed clean?
I recognized many of the actors and if nothing else they had at least one credit to take pride in. All of them did good work. Those *MASH* fans who wondered if Clete Roberts was a real newsman now have their answer.
clore: I'm not surprised that Patterson was a segregationist during that time but disappointed. How could he be so open to the righteousness of one cause and so blind to the justice of another? It was the times and the way he was raised as were most white people. That's hard for those who came afterwards to realize and they judge by today's standards.
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I wrote: And I don't care what Mr. McQueen/Jones calls himself as long as he keeps turning up on my TV screen. Where was *Fantasy Island* when I needed it?
I'm not on *Fantasy Island* but guess who is on my screen in *Battle Cry* right now. I guess I was due for a granted wish. Wow!
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We had a very detailed discussion of this movie awhile back and it went about 50-50. I'm in the camp that likes it. They start it out with a very familiar premise and shoot it out into a totally different direction. People turn out to be not what they seem and some of them-as well as us-must question who we're loyal to. It's well worth the look.
It's being shown as part of a tribute to Max Steiner's music scores. This one was used in several Columbia Westerns including Randolph Scott's *7th Cavalry* and Audie Murphy's *The Guns of Fort Petticoat* much like WB did with the *Dodge City* and *Silver River* scores. When he was good, he was really good.
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The barn looks sturdier than the house. It looks like one on one my calendars which is all barns. The church he went to that you always saw on TV looks very much like one that was in a little Florida town called Citra that burned a few years ago. These buildings have a look that says nature, outdoors and peace. I'm late in coming to appreciate all this but I'm here now. Keep them coming!
Thank you, Kyle, for this great bit of information. All three of my favorite Power films, *The Long* *Gray Line,* *Captain From* *Castile*, and *Witness For the Prosecution* are scheduled. That day is marked on my calendar.
Thank you for letting us know Zohra Lampert is still with us. A reviewer described her as "an unusual and interesting actress". I'll say! And a face any Miss America would envy.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}Joanne Dru was in a short-lived TV series, called Guestward Ho. I liked her very much in that. Personally, I found her good looking, but no stunner. I liked her personality. But, then I think that Marylin Monroe looked like a caricature of a woman, not a real woman... such is taste.
:0 I can't believe that somebody else remembers this show. My brother loved J. Carrol Naish's "Indian" character and quoted his lines long after the show went off. I also remember Joanne Dru playing Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to be a doctor, on Playhouse 90. This was my first introduction to both actress and doctor and neither was forgotten.